The night Thendral Kamal arrived in West Lafayette, she had three heavy bags, a 17.5-hour flight behind her, and no one she could call a friend in the entire country.

Stellerian is developing lightweight software for small satellites to detect and calculate the trajectory of objects around them, so they can perform avoidance or docking maneuvers.

Professor Alexeenko-Peroulis is one of 3 researchers at Purdue University who have developed a low-mass, low-power, self-contained attitude adjustment system that operates using the waste heat of the vehicle and produces fine thrust forces through the delivery of low volumes of gas and/or liquids.